The Orr Commission on the Israeli-Arab riots of last October, in which 13 Israeli-Arabs were killed in violent clashes with the police and other Israelis, resumed its sessions today. Border Guard Commander Bentzi Sau testified about the dangers the police and civilians faced from the Arab rioters. He insisted not on using dry numbers and statistics, as did other testifying officers before him, but rather described what he called \"the pogrom:\"
\"The photographs that you can see here show the results of a pogrom. When looking at them, you might not think that they are from Israel, but rather from other places in the world where there is no law and no order… One of our men was hit in the face by a rock shot from their homemade launchers, and we tried to get to him under a hailstorm of rocks... We were in genuine danger of our lives.\" In the riots about which Sau testified, two Arabs were killed, 24 policemen and 150 Israeli cars were injured and damaged, and 1,000 dunams [250 acres] of forest were burnt.
\"The photographs that you can see here show the results of a pogrom. When looking at them, you might not think that they are from Israel, but rather from other places in the world where there is no law and no order… One of our men was hit in the face by a rock shot from their homemade launchers, and we tried to get to him under a hailstorm of rocks... We were in genuine danger of our lives.\" In the riots about which Sau testified, two Arabs were killed, 24 policemen and 150 Israeli cars were injured and damaged, and 1,000 dunams [250 acres] of forest were burnt.